Public health approach to reducing firearms-related suicide

A New York Times opinion piece today gives another perspective on gun violence prevention. In an earlier post, I had focused on the public health approach to reducing gun violence through targeting mass shootings. Although mass shootings occur more than once daily in this country, the rate of gun-related suicide is far higher: about 20,000 suicides by gun per year, or about ⅔ of all people killed by guns.